April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today’s Fact – some of you might be defensive enough to think that making kids fat is not child abuse. This complete lack of caring, selfish, irresponsible adult-centric view of things, is totally wrong. Here is the definition of abuse according to CAPTA, the Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act:

“at minimum {child abuse and neglect are):

Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm…or

An act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”

We will be going through some of the physical and emotion harms overweight/obese children suffer, some of which cause death.

All of which are, in the final analysis, the result of bad parenting.